Wowhead's 5th Anniversary WoW TCG Giveaway

UPDATE: This contest is closed. Winners will be announced soon. The post is locked to prevent further entry.

Did you know that it's Wowhead's fifth birthday this weekend?

It's hard to believe, but we've spent five long years of being one of the biggest World of Warcraft resources and working our hardest to tell you what you need to know to bring your a-game to Azeroth. The site has come a long way from its talent calculator days and remains stronger than ever--thanks largely to its awesome userbase and determined staff. You guys have made it all possible and that alone is worth a celebration.

Luckily for you, like any good birthday bash, we're celebrating with presents all week. But instead of presents for the birthday site, they're for you guys. We've hooked up with Cryptozoic, makers of the WoW TCG, to give away our logo's inspiring force this year: rockets! That's right, lucky Wowhead members will blast off from this contest with their very own loot code for a X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME/X-51 Nether-Rocket (x1) or Rocket Chicken (x3). Ten runners up will win a consolation prize as well--their own Landro's Lichling, not a vanity pet to be scoffed at by any means.

We will be picking winners on July 1st, so you have until then to leave your comment to be considered.

To enter to win, all you have to do is comment in this thread answering the following question...

What is your favorite memory from World of Warcraft and why?

Maybe it was the first time you downed a boss or maybe it was that time your friends surprised you with an in-game present. Either way, tell us what your favorite WoW experience was and why it means a lot to you in this post!

Rules:

The contest is open to anyone--yes, international entries can win!

Comments on Twitter and Facebook do not enter you to win. The comment must be in this post at Wowhead.

We reserve the right to disqualify any entry; we'll notice duplicate entries and/or fake accounts.

Comments

Comment by Paladindwarf217

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:32:36 -0500

Favorite moment :Being world first/server first on an achievment.I hit server first mage. Right when I got this achievment back when 80 was the cap, everyone from all over the realms would make level 1 character on Alliance and congradulate you. I had so many whispers I literally dced. That moment when people were congradulating you, you would feel honored and amazing at the same time for doing something you never thought you could've accomplished. Think about the millions of players out there playing, and you being the server first, AMAZING. I'm sure anyone would feel the same way if they had done this.

Server Name : Verve

Comment by Angieee

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:49:35 -0500

During my first time run The Nexus dungeon, I fell off the edge when tried to make a jump. A friend whom I admire and like jump off with me so he can lead me back from the grave yard to the entrance of the instance, because of him, this time I didn’t panic on getting lost like always. This sweet moment made me unforgettable in all my wow memory and as well as the rest of my real life.

Comment by Shodoryn

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:19:41 -0500

I think my favorite memory would be leveling my first character to 60 back in vanilla WoW. It wasn't necessarily reaching 60 that was so awesome, but more so the journey getting there. I leveled up with two buddies that live a few hundred miles away. It was really cool since I don't get to see them that often anymore. I leveled up my rogue and they were leveling up a Prot Pally and a Holy Priest. It was great since we had the core for forming a group to run dungeons. The experience of leveling up with two really good friends was priceless. I've had some amazing times since then, on different characters as well, but that experience will always stand out to me.

Comment by kalerender

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:20:41 -0500

One of my favourite WoW moments, was playing in a net cafe, so sans my nostromo and gamer mouse, and no custom UI, and I'm riding across Hillsbrad during Vanilla WoW, so of course bored level 60's abound (so glad the forsaken nuked southshore..).

A warrior charges me out of nowhere and hamstrings me off my mount, and a mid 50's mage joins in to grab some free honour.

But the dice came up Kale that day. I managed to kill off both, do a little dance on their corpses and ride off to whatever random thing I was doing out there.

The guy next to me had been watching and said "That was amazing!"`I laughed and said I was sure I would die, and had no idea how I pulled that off.

Fun times.

Comment by Osiras777

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:03:53 -0500

My Favorite WoW memory is right before Cata came out, we were gathering in Dal for an ICC raid and this girl in the group fell off a tower and onto a ledge, just to where she couldn't get to her body to re spawn, so all the rest of the group starting going over and taking turns "crouching" over her body.

Comment by pezdspencer

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:37:39 -0500

My favorite memory would probably be killing Ragnaros or Nefarian for the first time. Lots of wipes, blood, sweat, and tears to finally kill those bosses with 39 other people was amazing feeling. Made us feel powerful, something I don't feel much in the game anymore like the old days... lol.

Comment by Shinn

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:57:13 -0500

HAI ULK!

Comment by doneill48

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:01:49 -0500

My fave moment was getting the love of my life to play wow and 2maning as much content as possible as we leveled taking turns reading all quests texts to each other :-)

Comment by Darkdiamond

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:30:40 -0500

My Favorite time in WoW was very interesting due to the fact that it was fustrating beyond belief, but a good lesson learned in the end. It all started when I became obsessed with the Time Lost Proto drake. I camped for my first week in Bor's Breath with only a handfull of sightings of Vyragosa. Through that first week I would camp in one spot and watch movies on my M15x Alienware which I got for a steal off Ebay ;) Zombieland became my best friend along with an accumulation of junk food from Safeway, which killed my 10-15hr a day camping sessions with a breeze. Second and third week go by and Its like shootin fish in a barrel with Vyragosa. She sure loves taking those strolls through Bor's Breath, or maybe she was just happy to see me. Anyhow, I meet some "competitors", and make friends with a few to kill time trading PvP war stories and RL stuff. Fourth week rolls by, as I'm watching Zombieland at 4am and it gets to my favorite part with Bill Murray, I hear the great battle drums roar in the background. With panic I switched screens and begin to do to Time Lost what retribution Pallys are know for the best. PWNing noobs! When I loot the body I feel such a sence of gratification for being patient for something that I really REALLY wanted, and that moment means alot to me because I see alot of impatient players that just want an easy ride with the game. If you put serious effort into something, you get serious results. Plus Time Lost is a pretty epic loot in my opinion...JUST SAYIN! =P

Comment by crash7800

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:57:46 -0500

The first time I walked into Booty Bay in Vanilla WoW

I really felt like I had achieved something and reached an exotic place. Now it seems like everything just zips by :)

Comment by Ederhammer

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:07:25 -0500

My most memorable time in wow history was millhouse manastorm speech in alc back during BC it was funny the first time you watch it and how it played out

Comment by frederiklitte

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:13:11 -0500

my best wow moment was when i was with my friends and we were dungenering and i got many thing from them and we had fun and played with our mounts ! ...

Comment by shubee

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:15:34 -0500

My most memorable WoW moment would have to be when the dark portal opened never seen so many players in one spot was amazing :)

Comment by frederiklitte

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:18:57 -0500

hey all!. i wanna tell a little about my best WOW Moment! i was with my friends and we were having fun and playing arround with our mounts. and talking about getting a boss Owned. then we went off for a dungen and we Owned the boss! and we all got somthing very good and i got the bronze drake! and i have used it since!.

Comment by LrdKane

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:44:24 -0500

1 of my favs was this time I was working my paladin through some old Darkshire quests...

I was about 28 and went to the big graveyard for some undead slaying. I was trying to avoid the big green spiders because their poison could freeze me in place and they hurt a lot. As I was looting one such ugly sucker that I failed to avoid, when I was attacked by this tall undead fighter-type. There was no where to run (what with all the spiders and such), so I started into my routine. This was when I realized that not only was he elite, he was also 32. After a heart-pounding 10-15 minutes of frantic (but focused) button smashing and hotbar clicking, he went down.

My fists shot into the air in celebration. Then I saw that I had the paralyzing poison debuff..... I managed to take the spider and loot both corpses. With only a sliver of health, no mana, and Lay on Hand still cooling, I was about to hearth out when the elite jumped me again.

I ran.

The small spiders got me.

But it was fun.

=)

Comment by herenvardo

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:10:22 -0500

Not sure if i'm still in time to enter, but just for case:

My favorite moment was my day of über gnomish pwnage!

I was near the furbolg village and cave in Winterspring, with a quest to bring down some fluffy elite in there, when I met a tankadin I had grouped a few times with. I was level 54 and he was 56.

Since he was on the same quest, we teamed up to bring that 59+ guy down... but we got surprised by his two lvl58 adds. After a few seconds, both adds were on the pally, but the big guy was taking on me. So I chained my stuns as much as I could, then used blind + bandage when I was close to dying (it was still at 80% health or so) and kept fighting... by ~65% he already had me quite low on health again, thus I had to pop out my gnomish mechanical chicken and Vanished so it would take the aggro. I was out of combat, so I took the chance to have a snack while /cheer'ing my chicken.

After regaining some health, and just by the time the chicken would enrage, I stealthed and went in with cheapshot, some combo points, gouge, and kidney shot; popped out my dragonling, and burned all my offensive cooldowns. That guy was around ~20 or 30% health when he finnished off the chicken and turned back on me, so I went with evasion and all-out to finnish him off at ~300 health. After that, I was able to bandage again, and sprinted towards my friend to deal with the two adds (he was enduring quite well, but couldn't put out too much damage). Without drawing aggro from them, I could steadily bring their health bars down and eventually the fight was over.

The pally was convinced that some level70 (it was the early TBC days) had stepped in and helped us. He wouldn't believe that I had downed it myself until (1h cd later) I dueled him and sent him my two lvl78 pets (that was the scaling for my 375+15 engineering) as a "proof of concept".

It took everything I had (even some thistle tea and potions), but as a lvl54 gnome (which was my first character) I soloed that 59 elite :D Gnomish pwnage at its finest!

Comment by Arjayemm

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:01:51 -0500

My favourite moment in WoW is probably the time my first tauren character reached the Ahab Wheathoof npc and completed his quest. I had completed the "Alicia's Poem" on my Nelf main and found a reference in the Wowhead notes to Ahab Wheathoof, so I felt I had to check it out then make a hordie to allow me to do the hordeside equivalent. I'm not ashamed to say I finished the quest barely able to see the screen for tears and to this day, whenever I tell anyone the story of the npc and quest, it still brings a lump to my throat. To any player that considers themselves a human being with a heart I would say this - anytime you're near Mulgore, pop over to Bloodhoof Village and /bow, /salute or /wave to Ahab beside the bridge and help keep the kid's memory alive. It makes all the grinding, all the wipes and all the other frustrations in the game and life generally worthwhile.

Comment by drater21

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:42:59 -0500

My fav moment from my time spent playing wow is from just my first few levels playing.

My moment is of my first death in the game period........

So the story is told a hundred times a young blood elf leaves Silvermoon for the first time out to explore the world, you see the sights and meet friends and have a grand ole time, that is until.......YOU DIE TO A STUPID MURLOC! GWAR!

So not the best story but my fav. memory from playing.Thanx Syclonis

hope to see you around on my new rocket!

Comment by Koggernaut

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:44:45 -0500

My Favorite WoW moment...

A couple of Alliance paladins and a hunter found a way to get on top of the Undercity and run across the top of it to drop down into a hole that landed them on the balcony that overlooks the outer ring. They wrecked us all for half an hour, and any attempts to hit them with anything were thwarted by them simply stepping backward to break line of sight.

My guild master and I, priests, climbed up to the sewer tube where the bats fly in and out of the city, and used levitate to slow-fall down to the balcony, unbeknownst to the unwelcome visitors.

We ran along the balcony to where the intruders were, and simultaneously mind controlled a paladin and the hunter off of the balcony and down into a waiting mob of rabid Horde, who took full advantage of their new-found line of sight. Then we engaged the remaining paladin, who promptly ditched his friends and bubble-hearthed home. Heros for a day!

Comment by shotyme

on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:51:50 -0500

My favorite memory was back in vanilla as well. I went to the deserts of Tanaris with my discipline priest long before I should have been there and was exploring and waiting to get agro that would cost me all my hard earned gold in repair bills. The anxiety and thrill of "what am I doing here" was immense.